Shops windows were smashed and the shops looted by rioters.

Soon, a riot was in progress in downtown Vancouver, with police cars set on fire, shops looted and attendant destruction of property.

Subsequently hundreds of ration shop owners were attacked and their shops and houses looted.

These demonstrations descended into chaos and became a riot, with buildings set ablaze, government offices ransacked, and shops looted.

Violence continued into the following afternoon and evening; petrol bombs were thrown and shops looted.

Cars were set alight, shops looted and six Australian police officers, members of a regional peace-keeping force, were injured by stone-throwing crowds.

According to visitors to Azhara, military posts had been damaged and shops looted, but houses were almost unharmed.

The number of protestors still under detention is also unknown; the houses of opposition leaders were ransacked and shops looted by uniformed men.

For the first time in the country's revolution, we saw large numbers of houses, and virtually every shop, systematically vandalised, looted or set on fire.

Additionally homes were vandalized and shops looted.